The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-02-24
AVOWED ANARCHISTS.
The Real Bomb ThrOwsrs at the Hay
market Massacre
Believed to Have Been Discovered in
the Anderles Brothers,
One Of Whom is Now In Jail at Drss-
den, Saxony.
Striking RsSemb, ance Between the
Accused and Spies and Sehwab.
Afndavits t. Show that the Boys Kuew
Who Threw The Fatal Missile.

CHICAGO, Feb. 22.-The Times says
that local lawyer has accidently di s.
covered evidence of interest in con-
nection with the anarchist trial. The
facts, as they have been developed.
are substantiated by afiidavits of citi-
Zens of Pullman and Kensington. On
the trial of the seven condemned an
2rchistS, Witnesses Thompson and
Gilmer swore they saw two men, sup
posed to be Spies and Schwab, in an
alley prior to and simultaneous with
the explosions; but the affidavits OBJ
tanned would go to show that the men
who were in the alley were Carl and
Otto Blank, alias Anderlee, desperate
characters and avowed anarchists.
The Blanks fled from the city last
June, and it was only through the ar
rest of Carl at Dresden, Saxony,
and inquiry here as to
his reputation by the German
consul that his supposed connection
with the Haymarket tragedy was as
certained. Carl and Otto are either
brothers or cousins. On May 5th, and
until their flight in June, they admitted
they were at Haymarket and at the
mouth of the alley when the bomb was
thrown. Photographs of Otto and
Carl Blank show a striking resem-
blance between them and August
Spies and Michael Schwab, strong
enough to have any person not well
acquainted with them to readily mis-
take them for Spies and Schwab in the
evening or by gas light. These men
wereundoubtedly attheHaymarket and
the lawyer thinks they may have been
taken for Spies and Schwab by Gilmer
and Thompson. Aflidavits signed by
Emanuel Ertsman, a woodworker at
Pullman is given. He says Otto Blank
was a woodworker in the same shop
with himself, and that Carl rented
from the afiiant a room in which he
carried on small tailoring business.
Carl openly avowed himself an an
archist, saying he was ready and will
ling to do anything in that direction.
Affiant said Carl Blank had the most
violent hatred toward policemen, and
would denounce them collectively and
individually in the strongest language
at all times, and express his hope of
getting at them some day. On the
afternoon of May 4th Carl Blank told
affiant that he and Otto were going to
Chicago, and referring to the riot on the
Black road near McCormick's the day
before, denounced the police violently,
saying, every working man should
have bomb In his pocket to use against
them. Carl did not return to the
house until the next morning when
Ertsman was surprised to see that his
full, black beard had been shaved off.
Carl for two days talked freely about
the Haymarket, saying he had seen a
bomb thrown and knew who threw
it, but after the beginning
of the anarchist trial became very ner-
Vous, and refused to talk. On June
26th, he suddenly left for parts I'M
known. He was not heard of again
until the German consul began max
ing inquiries, and the fact of his i'm
prisonment in SaXony was learned.
Otto disappeared about the same time.
Other atfidavits are to the same eff
feet